Animals Quotes
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
Hans Jonas
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The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.
Nathan Wolfe
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione
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But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.
James Boswell
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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
Eddie Izzard
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
Walter Gilbert
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
Captain Beefheart
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Malcolm de Chazal
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The tragic capacity of the human race for going off course was a little balanced by the integrity of the animals who were always obedient to the law of their being. We were meant to love like that, thought Mary, simply because that's our law and we were told to obey it.
Elizabeth Goudge
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People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.
Albert Einstein
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I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.
Misty May-Treanor
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When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
Epictetus
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I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.
Carrie Ann Inaba
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One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
Faith Ford
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Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
W. G. Sebald
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
Eliphas Levi
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Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
Antoine Lavoisier
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Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him.
Rudyard Kipling
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I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.
Kaley Cuoco
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. Fields
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I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers.
Elayne Boosler
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I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.
Tamsin Egerton
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We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.
Elayne Boosler
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Haile Selassie